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Rose was just locking up the clinic for the day when her cellphone rang. She’d had to get a new one, since her old one was being held in evidence for the case against Jared, and there were only a handful of people that had her new number.
So when she saw that it was Colt calling, she wasn’t exactly surprised.
“Hey,” she said, answering the phone as she walked to her car. “I was just about to call you. My first day at work is officially over!”
She cradled the phone between her ear and shoulder as she opened her car door to get in. “We should celebrate,” she added coyly, thinking of their unfinished business from earlier that morning.
Colt groaned on the other end of the line.
“As tempting as that sounds, we’re going to have to hold off on the celebrating until later.”
Rose frowned
